tort law
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftortandlaw
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tort
noun[C]
uk/ˈtɔːt/us/ˈtɔːrt/
an action that is wrong but can be dealt with in a civil court rather than a ...
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law
noun
uk/lɔː/us/lɑː/
a rule, usually made by a government, that is used to order the way in which a ...
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(Definition oftortandlawfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftort law
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The plaintiffdefendant structure oftortlawis essential to it, not merely contingent.
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Before that,tortlawonly allowed direct victims to initiate legal action against a polluter.
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It was not onlytortlawthat was reconfigured around the idea of public duties, however.
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Thetortlawis not understood unless this principle is grasped.
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Canadiantortlawtraditionally has had more difficulty with damage beyond 'concrete physical injury'.
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Of particular importance in the context oftortlawis the inference of liability.
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Still,tortlawremains maddeningly committed to principles that refuse easy explanation by a deontological morality.
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The quote with which we started comes from a study oftortlaw.
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This is the kernel we want to keep fromtortlaw.
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First the "bad man" exception intortlawis disappearing fast.
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Thetortlawrequires defendants who have wrongfully injured plaintiffs to make them whole.
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Second, the available evidence suggests that the administrative costs associated withtortlaware very high.
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For the economist need not deny that corrective justice theorists illuminatetortlaw.
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Consequently, textbooks of criminal law often start by differentiating between criminal law andtortlaw.
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More generally, the explanatory efforts ran aground on their selective identification of the effects oftortlawin identifying its point or purpose.
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However, even if contracts generate deontological duties, this does not take us ver y far in accounting for the duties imposed bytortlaw.
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Against that backdrop, transaction rules should be enforced by, among other things, the mechanisms oftortlaw.
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However, the corrective practices oftortlawdo not aim directly or even indirectly at maintaining that background of distributive justice.
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But once rights are understood as dignity-based, intent makes all the difference, just as it does in basic common-lawtortlawor criminal law.
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Indeed, isn't this what thetortlawalready does with cases that greatly resemble your hiker hypothetical.
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